Hot Topics in Connected Health

The fall foliage is coming in nicely here in New England and the heat has kicked on the last few mornings. The seasons have changed and that signals the intense, final preparations for this year’s Connected Health Symposium. I’ve been heavily involved in the content for this year’s event and am excited delve into some of the hot topics on the agenda.

This post is designed to help you build your own personal program for the event. Among the themes featured this year are: Consumer connected health, automated care, genetics and connected health, growing the market for connected health (both on the innovation side and in the more established supply chain of payers, providers, government and pharma), health policy and the implications for connected health and connected health at scale.

It promises to be a sensory smorgasbord unlike any other. If you have a smartphone, we’ll have an app for you to download so you can customize your own agenda during the two day event, but here’s my take on some of the speakers/sessions that are thematically connected. While we don’t have tracks, armed with your phone and this primer, you can create your own.

This is speculative but I suspect both Juan Enriquez and Esther Dyson will speak to this theme as they’ve been bullish on it in the past. I will be talking on Thursday afternoon on this topic as well. It is probably the most futuristic topic we’re covering this year, so there are only a few relevant talks. Speaking of futuristic, be sure and catch Rick Valencia’s interview with futurist Daniel Kraft on Thursday afternoon.

There is much more compelling content at the Symposium. I’ve only scratched the surface. Also there is nothing like the opportunity to network with such a large crowd of passionate people who all share in the same vision for moving healthcare forward.